Okay I give in, I have to join in and post some of my stuff. I mean one of the pictures posted so far shows me taking one of these.
I start off with a panorama, a combination of three shots taken to try to show the rather large number of people who showed up. Unfortunately I didn't take enough shots to show the whole group, I'm not sure why. I'm proud of it, just because it took a little bit of extra editing to resolve a conflict. Photoshop's photomerge function did a decent job of stitching the images, except one person's hand was half chopped off. So I took a copy of the original and used a little layer mask editing to draw the rest of the arm back in.
Then, because I'm indecisive, I offer three different variations on the statuette theme. Overall I prefer the first for the extreme background blur, but it's a bit too tightly framed. The other two include more of Donald, but I don't like the background look as much.
My great new concept learned in the tour were those statues. I mean I didn't even know they existed. I'm a devotee of the "Disney Commando" style of park going, my usual style is hitting the parks hard to do as much ride riding as possible. I won't apologize for it, it's my preference and that's they way I like it. But in doing so I'm sure I do tend to miss some of the finer details. And of course it's not entirely conducive to a fine photography approach.
But the statues were a genius inclusion in the tour. I mean first off there were a lot of them, so the large group could spread out and divide up the statues. Also it was a really good, clean way to play with depth of field and composition. Such a simple concept, yet such pleasing images.. especially with the brightly colored flowerbed behind them for a background.
Also I'm not entirely sure I knew that the Cinderella fountain existed. I may have passed by it, but overall that's not a route I normally take so I wouldn't have seen it very often.
You know what's be kind of fun.. or funny, take your pick? A TMIP group ride through of Living with the Land. I mean imagine a boat or two filled with manic photographers. Now that there's no actual person giving the speeches we could more or less ignore the factual content, instead it would be a case of dueling photographers, fighting for prime position to get the key shots.
I guess the same would apply to a photographer group ride of the Safari Ride. Although imagine the conflict of all the telephoto lenses swinging about. You wouldn't just have to look out for other people, you'd have to make sure there's no other glass in the way when you bring a lens from one side to the other. I do a lot of solo ride throughs of that ride, so I normally get seated on an end, so I don't really have to deal with such things normally. Actually I often end up with a row to myself. But imagine a whole row of telephoto equipped SLR users.
It'd probably be smart to evenly distribute the SLR users among the vehicle.
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